mountain-rimmed

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A final explosion occurred a few hours later when one of the bombers who had been hiding in a room blew himself up long after ambulances had carried the dead and wounded from the hotel, which sits on a hill overlooking the mountain-rimmed capital.

The killing, which perhaps would not have been called a murder had there been a trial, took place on a certain infelicitous afternoon in the mountain-rimmed town of San Cristobal de las Casas in the Mexican State of Chiapas, during a trip Ray had taken there in the summer between high school and university.

The steamer took them upriver to Albany, where they boarded a morning train to the village of Lake George at the southern tip of the mountain-rimmed lake, which Georgia once called the most beautiful lake in the Adirondacks.

White Ladies of the Walk, where the west wind came now with a sigh, and again with a rush, and then brushed our faces as softly as the down of a thistle, was full of the glamour of mountain-rimmed lakes, and purple chalets, and "snowy summits old in story."

Ladies of the Walk, where the west wind came now with a sigh, and again with a rush, and then brushed our faces as softly as the down of a thistle, was full of the glamour of mountain-rimmed lakes, and purple chalets, and "snowy summits old in story."

This reference to Early's encampment on the mountain-rimmed plateau, to which Jackson withdrew at intervals in his marvellous campaign, reminds me that unfair contrasts have been drawn between the results achieved by these two generals in the same Valley.